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Cummings chases final Godolphin feature

A look at James Cummings’ top performers as a Godolphin trainer.

ANAMOE winning the Ladbrokes Cox Plate.
ANAMOE winning the Ladbrokes Cox Plate. Picture: Colin Bull / Sportpix

This Saturday's $200,000 Bletchingly Stakes is the final Group race of the Australian season and will be the final feature race involving Godolphin runners trained by James Cummings.

The member of Australian racing royalty is stepping away from training, having a year off before taking up a contract in Hong Kong, thus ending an eight-season stint as Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's head trainer in Australia.

Cummings has one-third of the field in the 1200-metre Group 3 Bletchingly Stakes – Kallos, Inhibitions and Kin – at Caulfield as he strives to add another feature win to a glittering resume.

A Cox Plate, Golden Slipper, Doncaster Mile, two Australian Cups, a pair of Newmarket Handicaps, two Caulfield Guineas and a couple of Golden Rose successes are among his biggest wins with his top performers listed below.

Highest-rated runners

Anamoe might be the Godolphin galloper most readily-associate with Cummings, but he sits equal second number two on the list of highest-rated from a Racing And Sports rating perspective.

128 – Bivouac (Champions Sprint)
125 – Anamoe (Cox Plate)
125 – Avilius (George Main Stakes)
124 – Tom Kitten (All-Star Mile)
123 – In Secret (Newmarket Handicap)
123 – Kementari (Randwick Guineas)
123 – Trekking (The Goodwood)
122 – Alizee (Expressway Stakes)
122 – Cascadian (Australian Cup)
122 – Hartnell (Lawrence Stakes)
122 – Home Of The Brave (Theo Marks Stakes)
122 – Impending (Kingsford Smith Cup)
121 – Cylinder (Newmarket Handicap)

Group 1 winners (48)

All-up, Cummings has his name attached to 52 Group 1 wins – two in partnership with his grandfather Bart and another two in his own right before taking on the Godolphin job – before cracking the half-century with an average of six Group 1 wins per season for Sheikh Mohammed.

His 48 Godolphin Group 1s were gathered by 23 horses, 11 of whom won multiple times at the top level, including 2023 Australian Horse of the Year winner Anamoe.

9 – Anamoe
4 – Broadsiding, Cascadian
3 – Alizee, Avilius, Bivouac
2 – Colette, Hartnell, In Secret, Tom Kitten, Trekking
1 – Best Of Days, Cylinder, Flit, Golden Mile, Impending, Kementari, Kiamichi, Microphone, Paulele, Willowy, Zapateo, Zardozi

Most Wins

14 – Anamoe
12 – Savatiano
10 – Alizee, Tamerlane
9 – Avilius, Cascadian, Osborne Bulls, Trekking

Highest earners

Given he won more races and more Group 1s than any horse Cummings has trained, Anamoe unsurprisingly sits atop Cummings' highest-earners list with more than $12m in the bank.

Dual Australian Cup winner Cascadian is his other horse who has won more than $10m, while an additional six horses topped $5m in stakes.

Anamoe              $12,128,025    
Cascadian         $10,851,275    
Colette                $7,138,055       
Trekking              $5,862,670       
Tom Kitten          $5,817,800
Bivouac               $5,696,110       
Pericles               $5,461,365
In Secret            $5,283,100


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